Genesis 11

¹And the earth was of one tongue, and all one speech.

²And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.

³And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stone, and bitume instead of mortar:

⁴and they said, Come, let us make us a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us renown our name before we be dispersed into all lands.

⁵And our Lord descended to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam builded,

⁶and he said: Behold, it is one people, and one tongue is to all: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their determinations, till they accomplish them indeed.

⁷Come ye therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that none may hear his neighbour's voice.

⁸And so our Lord dispersed them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.

⁹And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the tongue of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence our Lord dispersed them upon the face of all countries.

¹⁰These are the generations of Sem: Sem was an hundred years old when he begat Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

¹¹And Sem lived after he begat Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

¹²Moreover Arphaxad lived thirty five years, and begat Sale.

¹³And Arphaxad lived after he begat Sale, three hundred three years, and begat sons and daughters.

¹⁴Sale also lived thirty years, and begat Heber.

¹⁵And Sale lived after he begat Heber, four hundred three years, & begat sons & daughters.

¹⁶And Heber lived thirty four years, and begat Phaleg.

¹⁷And Heber lived after he begat Phaleg, four hundred thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

¹⁸Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begat Reu.

¹⁹And Phaleg lived after he begat Reu, two hundred nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

²⁰And Reu lived thirty two years, and begat Sarug.

²¹Reu lived also after he begat Sarug, two hundred seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

²²And Sarug lived thirty years, and begat Nachor.

²³And Sarug lived after he begat Nachor, two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

²⁴And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Thare.

²⁵And Nachor lived after he begat Thare, and hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

²⁶And Thare lived seventy years, and begat Abram, and Nachor, and Aran.

²⁷And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begat Abram, Nachor, and Aran. Moreover Aran begat Lot.

²⁸And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

²⁹And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram his wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor his wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran the father of Melcha, and the father of Jescha.

³⁰And Sarai was barren, neither had she children.

³¹Thare therefore took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, for to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelled there.

³²And the days of Thare came to two hundred five years, and he died in Haran.